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So now I´m back after having a great time and here´s what I saw:

As Paul said, the quality of the instruments for the most part is very low. The ones that are for sale for the tourists are...

Thanks Paul,

so far I found a guitar and violin workshop mentioned in my guidebook, which appears to ber located way off the beaten track. As that is not what I´m looking for, I´ll probably go to...

Hi everybody,

I´m going for vaccation to Cuba in a couple of weeks and have always been intrigued by Cuban stringed instruments, particularly the tres and the tiple. I would love to check out some...

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Think back to all your favorite/classic recordings. Think back to your favorite songs/tunes. It wasn't the recording quality that stood out, it was the song/tune. ...

So true! With my previous bands, I always recorded in the studio, and if I was in a band now, I wouldn´t give homerecording a second thought - too much hassle for lo-fi results!

As you realised by...

Well, I´m not ruling out going that way - but I tried to set up audacity on my laptop, and sometimes it would work, sometimes not. Sometimes it would crash, sometimes not. I just found that it took...

Darn! I guess, a live mixer (Mackie) will probably not do, as the quality of the preamps and the other components is crucial. So that would set me back another 1000 $ or even more? Any other options?

My first post here for quite some time, and I really appreciate your input cause this definitely pushes me out of my comfort zone:

I´m thinking about recording a CD with Mandolin (me) in a duo or...

Hi Oliver,

get in touch with Rüdiger Helbig, owner of the Folkladen in Munich (I don´t have the address, but you should be able to find it on the net). I´m sure he can get you in touch with a...

This is sad on many different levels:

Peter Alexander had some artistic potential that was wasted in dozends of movies like this one

Likewise the band - they could swing when they were allowed,...

Hey, I can do that photo thing too ,after only 5 or 6 years hanging around here...


This is the only pic I have of my current mando, # 59..... the neck is beefy (which I like) and the extension...

This should be pics of Kimble # 15

Is Kimble #15 in Austria?


My old Kimble lives in france now, and is taken well care of by Christian Seguret, a great player.

Still working on that photo thing....

Wil is a great guy and builds terific instrumwnts. I used to own an early A-5 blacktop (# 15 ?) and later Wil sold me his personal instrument, again a blacktop A-5, # 59, which I still play. Great...

John,

thanks for one of the few explanation for modes I heard that actually makes sense...

Now, after thinking this trough, am I right in saying that there are two ways to learn modes, namely:...

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[I]It seems like some of you don't know that THAT'S the way a particular genre of music like Bluegrass (or Old Time or whatever) stays alive. These smaller genre's of music don't get the...

" "Ain't No Part O' Nothin'" was a phrase used by the late Father of Bluegrass Music, Mr. Bill Monroe, to describe music that wasn't bluegrass".

This is a FACT of history and not an opinion or...

Can we? It amazes me how often people make broad and very firm assumption about Bill Monroe and what he was thinking based on the NPON quote, which becomes an annoying discussion-killer btw.

Bill...

First, you don´t need the Schertler preamp (I have one!). Whatever it does doesn´t amount to much at least for mandolins. Instead I´d suggest to get a decent parametric EQ (used, if you are on a...

While, to my (limited) knowledge, there is a school of playing the mandolin with fingers, it is pretty much restricted to historic instruments, that are gut-stringed precedors of the "modern"...

While I´m not familiar with US - law, my guess is that James Monroe sold the mandolin "in good faith", i.e. he was not aware of the buyer´s fraudulent activities. If everybody that was stolen money...

Of course you can get John McGanns Rythm DVD. Haven´t seen it, but it should be top!

If you have at least a passing interest in Jazz, the Jethro Burns Book has some nice exercises and voicings. Not traditional mind you, but still very useful. He even has a couple of exercises for...

If I had the money, I would seriousely consider a Mix A5 as a stage instrument in an amplified setting - that´s where they really shine, IMO. No tuning issues, no varnish softening or finish cracks...

Duffey was great, but he strayed from the melody quite a bit (a favourite player of mine, and the Scene may well be my favourite BG band BTW). It puzzels me however that bands that were critizised...